Comments | lassarina: in which I froth in rage forever.

lassarina

in which I froth in rage forever.

Jul 25, 2009 11:39

(Hat tip to synthclarion, who shared via Twitter.)

So, EA encourages you to sexually harass and grope their booth babes at ComicCon. Even better, if you do it the most obnoxiously, then you get to go out for "a SINful" evening with two hot women as a reward!

Someone please whack some sense into whatever marketing asshole thought this one up.I have so many ( Read more... )

meglet smash!, you rolled a nat one, rar!, wtf, your shipment of fail has arrived

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auronlu July 25 2009, 18:40:56 UTC

I had no idea EA was so full of suck.

And I can't even post the biggest example of suckage I have heard of within the last week, because it's between them and an employee (someone I know).

lassarina July 25 2009, 18:44:29 UTC

They're pretty perpetually full of suck. I think their marketing department got one of the long-tenured reviewers at GameSpot fired a couple years back, because he gave poor reviews to some game whose ads had been wallpapering the site for weeks.

Also, at E3, their marketing team staged a "Christian fundie protest" of the game in question. Way to go, EA! Because bigotry is AWESOME whether it's sexist or based on religion! Stay classy!

(Nevermind that their slogan might as well be "Millions for marketing and NOT ONE CENT for QA!")

They just. Augh. They make me see red.

shanaqui July 25 2009, 19:46:13 UTC

I. I. What? I.

Ohgod.

lassarina July 25 2009, 20:49:15 UTC

Even better? This isn't just EA's employees who are subject to this. The poster clearly says "other booth babes." I bet you that female attendees in costume get harassed and assaulted because of this. I further bet you there is no security presence whatsoever to enforce the fine print that says "no touching."

WAY TO FUCKING BE, DOUCHEBAGS.

ovo_lexa July 25 2009, 20:14:56 UTC

Ugh.

I've been soft-boycotting EA for ten years now, ever since they bought one of my favorite game companies and ran it into the ground. I'm sure I've bought some things under their licensure, but that's because they're friggin' everywhere and I don't always know what they own. -_-

They have incredibly shitty business practices (they are known to overwork, underpay, and generally abuse their employees) and this... really doesn't surprise me, but is still a step up from what I normally expect from them.

I shall have to complain louder and be more vigilant from now on!

lassarina July 25 2009, 20:55:35 UTC

I'm super upset to discover that a game I have already paid for (Dragon Age: Origins) is published by them - it looks like they own Bioware. Bioware is in fact quite super awesome and handles women's storylines superbly. I am really angry that I must now weigh my support of Bioware vs. my loathing of EA.

However, that and LotR ripoffs seems to be the extent of their RPG offerings, which means at least in my chosen genre, I can know which company I have to consider supporting.

mansikka July 25 2009, 22:24:20 UTC

zomg. that's, like, one of the absolute stupidest things I've heard in a long while. way to go, world.

(fuming rage)

lassarina July 25 2009, 22:30:31 UTC

THE STUPID, IT BURNS US.

Icon LOVE.

hyaenid July 26 2009, 10:12:52 UTC

Wow, are you serious?

Well. I was kind of on the fence about buying Dragon Age; looks like I'm not anymore!

lassarina July 26 2009, 15:40:55 UTC

I had already pre-ordered and pre-paid, which means I'm really annoyed.

Bioware is the only company EA publishes that I give a shit about, and I desperately wish there was a way to give money directly to them instead of through their publisher, because Bioware does SUPER AWESOME THINGS with female characters and I want to encourage it! But! EA fail! aaaargh.

(It means I will wait and get Mass Effect 2 used, because I would rather give all my monies to some guy on eBay or to GameStop rather than a penny going to EA.)